Workers' Party of Korea

The Workers' Party of Korea is a Stalinist political party in North Korea, founded on 30 June 1949 by Kim Il-sung, a Korean partisan who had fought against Japan during World War II. The WPK has been the only legal political party in North Korea's single-party state, with Kim, his son Kim Jong-il, and Jong-il's son Kim Jong-un ruling as hereditary dictators over the pseudo-communist nation. In 2016, the party held 607/687 Supreme People's Assembly seats, and the party legitimized the Kim family's dominance of North Korea with the Juche ideology, and the party advocated the military-first Songun policy.